Flaming Balls — Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That
People with too much free time are funny. See they have this tendency to take the most normal everyday thing and turn it into something that can grievously injure themselves. Now take this example and apply it to sports and you get some serious hardcore sporting events. Granted my idea of “football except you replace the football with a chainsaw and everyone is riding dirt bikes through a fire pit while the audience throws high velocity explosives” hasn’t yet been attempted, but until then we can watch the other sport variations you can find here or there on the internet. This is the step before Death Race, and given enough time I am sure we will eventually find our own convicts to lock up, put in cars with missile launchers, and send into the racing circuit. Until then… lets light stuff on fire instead.
Fireball Tennis
The idea behind fireball tennis is simple. Step 1: tennis ball. Step 2: flammable liquid. Step 3: dunk tennis ball in flammable liquid. Step 4: light tennis ball on fire. Step 5: play tennis. Step 6: profit. These guys used lighter fluid to create their flaming ball of tennis death, but if I were to try this at home (which I shouldn’t… and neither should you) I would use a slower burning fuel, like kerosene, so that it burns at a much lower temperature. That way you could even pick up the ball temporarily instead of flipping it up with your tennis racket. The game wasn’t particularly intense, but that is because if you hit a flaming ball hard enough it goes out. On the bright side though, lighting the ball on fire actually doesn’t ruin the ball at all, and it’s safe to use for plain old tennis play after you are done lighting up the night sky with volleys.
Fireball Baseball
OK, so the first video isn’t actually a video of people playing flaming baseball but the idea is still there. Once again, their big mistake was coating the ball with lighter fluid. Coating the ball with a lower temperature fuel would allow them to pick it up safely with like a rubber glove and pitch it like normal. Anyway, unlike tennis balls, baseballs very quickly burn through their outer coating when lit on fire, and are eventually rendered useless, so I suppose this isn’t one of the best ideas for an extreme sport out there. Still it wouldn’t be that bad to see on TV once or twice. Also kudos to them for the NBA Jam reference… what’s next? Fireball basketball?
Flaming Basketball Soccer
Yep, we’re that obvious. Only these guys are kicking instead of throwing the ball.
Try This Instead
No fire on this one but we thought it looked fun. You can actually find this happening in random days in random parks in New York, but these guys from Dallas apparently saw fit to play it full contact style. Brooms, a ball, two goals, lots of bikes, and lots of face plants make Bicycle Polo a lot more interesting than it sounds, but hell YOU try knocking a ball through a goal while balancing on a bike. It is not as easy as it looks.
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